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Ronald Reagan: “We can have it if we stick to common sense and don't go back to the big spending and taxing addiction that brought this…”

On the recordMarch 18, 1983
We can have it if we stick to common sense and don't go back to the big spending and taxing addiction that brought this economy to its knees in 1980.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Radio Address to the Nation on a House Budget Proposal

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